A hosted search service for web sites

Search Technologies provides a hosted search service enabling professional publishers and other organizations with high-value, public-facing content to quickly add sophisticated search functionality to their web sites. 

This service is available for a simple monthly fee and it provides a number of easy ways to customize the look, feel and functionality of the search experience to suit specialist audiences.  The service is particularly suited to content publishers and large informational web sites, so whether your target community are engineers, accountants, mining professionals or the public-at-large, search can be tuned to suit their requirements and fully meet their expectations.

The search service provides:

• Site & Portfolio search, optimally parsing, indexing and categorizing your content, and presenting search results which incorporate current best practices, such as search navigators and contextual links

• Best of web search, optionally aggregating and combining selected third party content into the search experience, helping your property become a portal for your industry, or a hub through which all information about your organization can easily be found

Search functionality
The search service provides a range of standard features and functions, packaged into a hosted application.  This includes:

• Results ordering by relevance, by date, or by any other fielded criteria
• Various techniques to customize results ranking
• Search navigators, providing contextually relevant drill-down options to the searcher
• Search filtering on any meta data criteria to limit the scope of a search
• An adjustable number of results returned, which can be useful for SEO purposes
• Semantically enhanced search, supported by an ontology, enabling the expansion of search terms to synonym and narrower terms
• Adjustable results snippet lengths, with highlighting of search terms and synonyms
• Related search and refine search drill-downs, served contextually to the search request
• Relevancy score adjustment based on the data source.

Importantly, the service is designed to be administered and maintained by non-technical staff.


Contact Search Technologies for further details.